Elon Musk Interview
From Wired Science: When a man tells you about the time he planned to put a vegetable garden on Mars, you worry about his mental state. But if that same man has since launched multiple rockets that are...
View ArticleAnother Earth 2 and Ark 2 Meme
From news.discovery.com: Given the “big bang” of exoplanet discoveries over the past decade, I predict that there is a reasonable chance a habitable planet will be found orbiting the nearest star to...
View ArticleBigelow Module on the I.S.S.
From spaceref.com: NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced Wednesday a newly planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test expandable space...
View ArticleAnother Asteroid Mining Company Start-Up
From Centauri Dreams: Deep Space Industries is announcing today that it will be engaged in asteroid prospecting through a fleet of small ‘Firefly’ spacecraft based on cubesat technologies, cutting the...
View ArticleTo Ply The Martian Way
From Centauri Dreams: Existential risks, as discussed here yesterday, seem to be all around us, from the dangers of large impactors to technologies running out of control and super-volcanoes that can...
View ArticleInternational Spacecraft To Hit Asteroid in 2022
From Huffington Post: Scientists in Europe and the United States are moving forward with plans to intentionally smash a spacecraft into a huge nearby asteroid in 2022 to see inside the space rock. The...
View ArticleFalcon Heavy or Space Launch System For Lunar Exploration ?
From America Space: There have been occasional suggestions that NASA should scrap its Space Launch System (SLS) in favor of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy for fulfilling its beyond low-Earth orbit needs [1]....
View Article78,000 People Want To Go To Mars ( With Mars One )
From spacetransportnews.com: The Mars One organization released this announcement on Tuesday: 78,000 sign up for one-way mission to Mars Amersfoort, 7th May 2013 – Just two weeks into the nineteen...
View ArticleSpace.com: Moon Rovers Planned for Commercial Lunar Exploration Project
From the article: The commercial spaceflight company Golden Spike – which aims fly private missions to the moon by 2020 – has teamed up with the New York-based firm Honeybee Robotics to design robotic...
View ArticleProject Dragonfly Lives!
Here is another great post from Centauri Dreams, written by Andreas Hein. Good stuff. 2089, 5th April: A blurry image rushes over screens around the world. The image of a coastline, waves crashing into...
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